I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

I have worked with some great directors.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

I did two or three plays every summer.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

I come from the very heart of America.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.